SPOOKY ACTION: AN EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
Sunday, October 5th, 8-11pm

Dini Dixon
Jonathan Ehrenberg
Lucy Munger
Adams Puryear
Jish Shaffner
Diana Shpungin
Kate Stone

Curated by Kate Stone

DINI DIXON received a BFA in Ceramics from Pratt Institute in 2015. Currently she lives in New York where she is a studio technician at BKLYN Clay. She has been involved with numerous group shows in New York, California, and Colorado both as an artist and curator. In 2018 she had solo exhibitions at 808 Projects in Denver, Colorado and at the Thomas Hunter Project Space in Manhattan. Her video The Long Goodbye is an official selection of the 2018 SUPERNOVA Outdoor Digital Animation Festival.

JONATHAN EHRENBERG is interested in how we experience reality as a construct, a seemingly coherent world we piece together from sensory information and images we see internally—memories, fantasies, and associations. He received a BA from Brown University, and an MFA from Yale, and his work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, SculptureCenter, Nicelle Beauchene (New York), LAXART (Los Angeles), David Castillo (Miami), Futura Center (Prague), The B3 Biennial (Frankfurt), Espacio Minimo (Madrid), Temnikova & Kasela (Tallinn), and Nara Roesler (São Paulo). Reviews include The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Art in America, and he has participated in residencies at The Drawing Center, LMCC Workspace, Harvestworks, Islip, Skowhegan, Triangle, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and Glenfiddich in Scotland.

LUCY MUNGER is a stop motion animator and video editor. Her collage animations employ a handmade aesthetic to evoke a scruffy, meticulous, idiosyncratic world. Her work has screened at numerous festivals including BAMcinemaFest, SXSW and Rotterdam.

ADAMAS PURYEAR explores the Internet’s convoluted information and how it can be represented by tactile materials and different media. Currently based in Brooklyn NY, he received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2004 and an MFA from Indiana University in 2012. Puryear's work has been featured locally in New York City, nationally , and internationally at various galleries and museums. He is also the founder of FPOAFM Nomadic Studios, a project-driven experimental art/craft collective engaged in functional art discourse.

NORA RODRIGUEZ is an artist and educator working primarily with animation and sound. Nora's work has screened at REDCAT in LA, the Block Cinema in Chicago, Pioneer Works, The Filmmaker's Coop, and Anthology Film Archives in New York, among other venues. She currently produces interpretive media at The Jewish Museum in New York City. Nora is interested in making media as part of a strategy to build living, community-driven archives.

JOSH SHAFFNER is a film maker and visual artist originally from Missoula, MT. He received his BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Montana in 2005 and his MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2015. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he works as an independent artist and animator. FILMOGRAPHY: Excavation, 2008; The Rehabilitation of Sleep, 2010; Pond, 2013; Flaws, 2015; Service, 2015; FOOMA, 2016; and Ship of Fools, 2016.

DIANA SHPUNGIN is a Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary artist who has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in both national and international venues including: The Bronx Museum of Art, Sculpture Center, Bass Museum of Art, Locust Projects, Fieldgate Gallery, Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Invisible Exports, Marc Straus Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Galerie Zurcher, and Site:Lab. Shpungin was awarded the 2019 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and the 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. And has also been the recipient of awards, fellowships and residencies from The Foundation of Contemporary Art, The MacDowell Colony, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, CEC Artslink, Dieu Donné, Bronx Museum AIM Program, and Art Omi. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY and is currently an Assistant Professor at Parsons: The New School for Design in New York City.

KATE STONE is a Brooklyn-based artist working with photography and construction materials to create images, installations and animations that explore the nature of space and the narratives embedded in everyday architectural structures. She received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. She is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship and the Lotos Foundation Prize. Her work has been exhibited at Rubber Factory, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Cuchifritos Gallery, Transmitter Gallery and The Museum of Broken Relationships, among others.